Coors, The Banquet Beer, is Excellent for Putting Out Fires

Sure, you may be one of those beer snobs who prefer using a craft brew to put out car fires, but off-duty firefighter Capt. Craig Moreau isn't quite so finicky. Last Monday, while Moreau was driving home from a visit to Austin, Texas with his wife, he spotted an 18-wheeler on the road with smoke pouring from its breaks. He stopped and helped put out the fire with a small extinguisher. Unfortunately, the flame reignited and threatened to burn the whole truck, at which point Moreau asked the driver what he was hauling. "It's beer! It's all beer," the driver shouted. And not just any beer, it was Banquet beer. So Moreau and the driver grabbed can after can of Coors' Rocky Mountain goodness and sprayed down the burning truck wheel. Eventually they were able to extinguish the flame for good. "I have no doubt if the beer hadn't been there, the whole trailer would have burned up," Moreau told the Houston Chronicle. While it's a shame to think of all of that beer that will never be drunk, we should probably just be thankful that the driver wasn't hauling Bacardi 151.